Ep. 961 - Jussie Smollett’s Attacker Goes To Jail
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Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 150 days in jail for a noose hanging off his neck in a Chicago subway station. He claims he was the victim of a racist, anti-gay attack by a white supremacist group.
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We all remember when Jussie Smollett was viciously attacked in Chicago,
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had a noose placed around his neck, just barely summoned the fortitude to keep hold of his subway
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sandwich during the assault. Well, three years later, Smollett's attacker has finally been
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brought to justice. He did not take the news well. You are fined $25,000, which is the maximum
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fine. And you will spend the first 150 days of your sentence in the Cook County Jail.
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And that will start today, right here, right now. Do you have any questions?
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No, I would just like to say to your honor that I am not suicidal. That's what I was about to say.
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I am not suicidal. I am not suicidal. I am innocent, and I am not suicidal. If I did this,
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then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of black Americans in this country for over 400
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years, and the fears of the LGBTQ community. Your honor, I respect you, and I respect the jury,
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but I did not do this, and I am not suicidal. And if anything happens to me when I go in there,
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I did not do it to myself, and you must all know that. I respect you, your honor. I respect your
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decision. Jail time. I am not suicidal. Okay. The most surprising part of the sentencing was
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finding out that Jussie Smollett has incriminating information on the Clintons. That I'm not suicidal
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was the cry of a man just waiting for Hillary to walk in with the pillow. But the next most surprising
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thing about the sentencing was that Smollett is going to jail at all. I had just assumed that he'd get
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off the hook like every other well-connected, politically correct leftist who plays the right
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victim cards. But Jussie will go to jail, and he should, because his crime was not just against
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himself, and his crime was not just against the Chicago PD. It was a crime against half of this
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country, a crime against MAGA country, which he defamed as a racist lynch mob. He perpetrated a fraud
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on one half of this country about the other half. It's the same fraud that the liberal establishment
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perpetrates every day when it calls us deplorable and irredeemable. Jussie Smollett just took it a
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little bit further and made the mistake of casting Nigerian homosexuals to play anti-gay white
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supremacists. So he got caught. And despite repeated attempts by the establishment to let him off the hook,
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now he's paying the price. Good. Justice for Jussie means just a teetsy-tiny little bitty bit
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of justice for the rest of us, too. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Grant Denham, who says,
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what a legend Ethan was. He totally disagreed and never hid that. He hid hard with his arguments.
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And although I think he's wrong, I respect him for being able to simply express his views,
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listen to Michael's views, and at least actually hear what Michael said. Yes, thank you. I really
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think if you missed the show yesterday, go tune into it. I had my friend Ethan Bariman on. Ethan is a
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true, tried and true liberal Democrat from California. But I wanted to bring him on to just
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understand the left's point on the parental rights and education bill in Florida, the one they're
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calling the don't say gay bill. I invited on a number of liberals, pretty prominent liberals,
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some even not so prominent liberals. None of them would come on. They were all so, they love taking
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I wanted an elevated discussion to just hear the best argument the other side could make.
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Ethan gladly accepted the invitation and did it. And I give him a lot of credit for coming on.
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I think we need a whole lot more of that, especially these days where there's just so
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much disinformation. There's so much fake news. Everyone's just playing the victim card. I mean,
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this very weird story about the biolabs in Ukraine or the biolabs that may or may not exist. Initially,
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we were told by Ukraine and by the fact checkers over at PolitiFact and Snopes that there are no
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foreign US-run biolabs in Ukraine. This after the Russians accused the United States of having these
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biolabs not only in Ukraine, but in a lot of countries around the world. China came out and
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made the same allegation. So initially from the United States and Ukraine, you're no, there's no
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biolabs, but the language was very particular. Ukraine had said in the Kiev post, there's no
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foreign biolabs, but there might be Ukrainian biolabs that the Americans are very involved in,
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right? PolitiFact said there are no US-run biolabs. Okay, well, maybe the labs are
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run by the Ukrainians, but we now know because of the testimony of Undersecretary of State for
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Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, we now know there are biolabs. The United States helped to build
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the biolabs. The United States is still very involved in the biolabs and they're afraid that
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it's going to fall into Russian hands now. So we know that the fact checks were completely false
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in terms of the actual existence of these places with US involvement. That's now an established fact.
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So finally, after a couple of days, the Pentagon has responded to this. They say it's total malarkey.
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The Russian accusations are absurd. They're laughable. And, you know, in the words of my
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Irish Catholic grandfather, a bunch of malarkey. There's nothing to it. It's classic Russian propaganda.
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And I wouldn't, if I were you, I wouldn't give it, I wouldn't give it a drop of ink worth paying
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attention to. Yeah, but can you explain to us what, has there been any relationship between the
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We are not, not developing biological or chemical weapons inside Ukraine. It's not happening.
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Now that, that second part of his answer to the reporter, that's the part that really raises
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eyebrows. Because on the surface, it sounds like it's just a flat denial, right? No, this is bogus.
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It's not true. As he said in the first part, it's malarkey. Where have we heard that before?
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From our very honest president, Joe Biden. You know, when I hear that word malarkey,
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my eyebrow goes up too. But the second part is the key here. Because the reporter asks,
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has there been a relationship, it seems the next part will be, between the US and Ukraine and these
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labs developing potential, either potential biological weapons or other hazardous biological
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material that may have nothing to do with any intention of creating weapons. And John Kirby there,
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the Pentagon spokesman cuts him off and he says, the United States and Ukraine, the United States
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is not developing biological weapons in Ukraine. It's not happening. This is very weird phrasing
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because he's using the present tense. Obviously, we're not doing really anything in Ukraine right
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now because Ukraine is being invaded by the Russians. And apparently there were orders to secure these
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bio labs at the very beginning of the Russian invasion. But the question is not,
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is the United States doing anything in these nations right now? The question is,
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have we been doing this in Ukraine or in Georgia or in any other number of countries around the world?
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For the average listener who doesn't pay attention to propaganda and to the way that spokesmen speak,
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probably that's going to be good enough. But for people who know that these statements are crafted
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with real precision and specificity, to me, this denial sounds sort of like an admission.
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Because if he could actually totally deny the program, I don't think he would have cut off the reporter
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and used this very particular present tense. We are not doing this right now at this very moment.
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I think he would have said, this has never happened. This is completely bogus. Forget about it.
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Now, the Fox News reporter, Jennifer Griffin, did a slightly better job of trying to answer this question
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because that's what I said yesterday. I said, look, I don't, I don't believe Russian propaganda ever.
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Russia has a long history of falsely accusing the United States of using bioweapons and then admitting,
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actually Russia has admitted in private missives that they sent, for instance, to Mao Zedong,
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that they falsely accused the US of bioweapons. So I don't believe the Russian propaganda.
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I don't believe the Chinese propaganda, obviously. But likewise, I am skeptical of the deep state of my
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own government. And so I don't believe our propaganda either. And I want to get to the truth.
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So Jennifer Griffin at Fox did a slightly better job, but not much.
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In terms of Ukraine's bio labs, which have come under scrutiny tonight,
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those are Soviet era bio labs that the US has been engaged since 2005 in trying to help Ukraine
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convert the research facilities safely. In Uzbekistan, for instance, the United States eliminated
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nearly 12 tons of weaponized anthrax from an island in the Aral Sea in 2001.
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Here's a statement from the Pentagon, quote, on a daily basis, Russia propagates either either
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directly through state run media outlets or through the use of surrogates, disinformation
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aimed at BTRPs, the US biothreat reduction programs laboratory and capacity building efforts in former
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Soviet Union countries. The Lugar Center in Georgia and the Central Reference Laboratory in Kazakhstan
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are the primary targets. But more recent disinformation efforts have targeted laboratories
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in Ukraine. Through these different disinformation campaigns, Russia falsely claims the United States
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is developing biological weapons in laboratories in these countries, as well as killing local
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populations with purposeful release of biological agents.
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Okay, so the official statement that she's reading, by the way, she's not reading her own reporting.
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She's just reading the handout that the Pentagon gave her, which is, that's not reporting. That's
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not journalism. That's just repeating talking points from the people that you're supposed to be
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investigating. But, but the official statement is, look, these are Soviet era bio labs and the US is
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just in there to help Ukraine clean them up and, and get rid of all the bioweapons.
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Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. How long does it take to clean up a bio lab?
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We only began the program in 2005. That's a pretty long time to wait to clean up the Soviet era
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bioweapons laboratories. Okay, 14 years. But, but even since 2005, it's been 17 years. How long does it take
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to clean it up? Well, now some people are saying, well, okay, uh, they weren't just cleaning up. They're
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trying to convert them. They're converting the labs into ordinary scientific laboratories where we're working on
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totally ordinary, normal things that have nothing to do with weaponry or the military. Okay, fair enough.
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Then why is the military still running it? Why is that when you, when you go to the US embassy in
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Kiev's website, when you go to their explainer on this program, they direct you to a .mil website,
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the military, all the funding for this program comes from the Pentagon. So look, we, the US military
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does a lot of things around the world to ensure the security of the United States and global security.
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There are a lot of programs that are secret that civilians don't know about, and many that they
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really can't know about in order to protect the integrity of the programs. That's fine. The Russians
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have their thing. The Chinese have their thing. There's a lot of secrecy, a lot of people developing
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and lots of weapons and doing all sorts of clandestine activities. But, but don't lie to me about
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it. Don't, because that's, that's really what's disrespectful here. Okay. That's really what's
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going to destroy the credibility of our own government. All right. The, the, the government
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here has a lot of answering to do, and they're not doing it. They're just gaslighting us and
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calling us all crazy kooks and conspiracy theorists and Russian puppets. I don't, I don't think it's
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Russian puppetry to ask basic questions about where our taxpayer dollars are going and what sort
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of activities we're doing around the world, especially at a time of global conflict that could
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frankly spur world war three. There's the threat of nuclear war. We need to know what is the
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actual circumstance of what's going on that has led us to this point. There's nothing,
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there's nothing unpatriotic about that. It's extremely patriotic and, and extremely rational
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Speaking of war, there is some bad news for the West, for NATO, for the European union,
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for Ukraine, for the United States, when it comes to what's going on right now with Russia in Eastern
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Europe, with this war in Ukraine, the United States has sent Kamala Harris to go and sort out
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the situation in Eastern Europe. I am here standing here on the Northern flank, on the Eastern flank,
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talking about what we have in terms of the Eastern flank and our NATO allies. And what is at stake at
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this very moment? She couldn't, she couldn't even get the flank right. They sent her to Poland,
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which is very much not on the Northern part of NATO. That is on the Eastern part of NATO. She didn't
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know where she was. This is a similarity that Kamala has with Joe Biden. They don't know where
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they are. They don't know which end is up. The speech only got worse from there. Kamala Harris
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attempted to rally the troops. You once had Ronald Reagan show up and say, he shows up to the
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Brandenburg Gate, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. You once had Winston Churchill speaking in America
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saying from Stittin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended upon
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Europe. And then from Kamala, you get this. We all watched the television coverage of just
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yesterday. That's on top of everything else that we know and don't know yet based on what we've just
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been able to see. And because we've seen it or not doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
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But just limited to what we have seen. I defy anyone to explain to me what that
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meant. I defy anyone to try to translate that gibberish into English. You can't. And
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what I mean, I mean this. So I'm not really just joking about how inept Kamala Harris is. I mean this
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sincerely. This is really bad news for Ukraine because it means that Joe Biden thinks that Ukraine
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is already lost. Joe Biden thinks that Ukraine already belongs to Russia because Kamala Harris
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is Joe Biden's point person on failure. Joe Biden sends Kamala Harris to every lost cause
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to the southern border. Okay, Kamala is going to be our point person on the southern border now.
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That's going to work out great, right? This is an issue that's impossible. Nothing's going to happen
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with it. And so here goes Kamala. How's that come along? Has she fixed that? I don't think so.
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He's sending her now. Every issue that he doesn't want to deal with because he knows it's a lost cause,
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that's where he sends Kamala. So this is unfortunate because as of now, the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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has gone much slower than a lot of people predicted that it would. The world has rallied in a much more
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forceful way against Russia, I think, than Putin thought would happen. There actually is a chance
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for at least a negotiated peace to maintain some semblance of Ukrainian sovereignty here.
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But you're not going to get that with just abject weakness from Joe Biden. And you're not going to
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get that with Kamala Harris showing up in Warsaw to say, we know what we saw and we didn't see. And
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what we know we can do, we can do. If we believe that we know that we can imagine, then we can do it
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here on the northern side of NATO in Poland. You're definitely not going to get it there.
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Putin already knows that the geopolitical strategy of the Biden administration is confused to say the
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least. But if he now knows that they don't even know where Poland is, you're in a really weak
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situation. You need strength, not weakness. Speaking of strength, you know, on this show,
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it has been set, many people are talking about it, that sometimes we predict the future. So
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yesterday or two days ago, after Ron DeSantis endorsed this parental rights and education bill,
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the CEO of Disney came out strongly against it, begged DeSantis, do not sign this bill. It's
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terrible. He was going to donate to stop these bills around the country. And I said, I can't wait
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for Mac Daddy DeSantis to lay the political body slam on this woke CEO. This is going to look great.
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I don't think he's, he's not going to cave like Asa Hutchinson. He's not going to cave like
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Kirstie Noem, Kirstie Noem before she reversed course because it was sinking her political
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career. I said, I think he's going to stand firm. Governor DeSantis, take it away.
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The chance that I am going to back down from my commitment to students and back down from my
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commitment to parents' rights simply because of fraudulent media narratives or pressure from woke
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corporations, the chances of that are zero. I also think that if you have companies like a Disney
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that are going to say and criticize parents' rights, they're going to criticize the fact
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that we don't want transgenderism in kindergarten and first grade classrooms,
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if that's the hill that they're going to die on, then how do they possibly explain lining their
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pockets with their relationship from the Communist Party of China? Love it. That's the answer. And
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this is an important lesson in leadership. I don't, I don't just bring it up because it's very
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satisfying to finally see a politician smack down some woke CEO. This was a real political problem
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for Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis is the government, is the governor rather in Florida. Disney is a very
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big company in Florida. Disney World is a very important place in Florida. So the CEO of Disney
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could cause a lot of problems for Ron DeSantis. And so there's a world in which Ron, what Ron DeSantis
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wants to do is keep his position and set himself up to run for president. Simple as that. And there's
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a world I can, I can understand the thinking that would lead you to believe, okay, well, look,
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I can tick off all the other CEOs, but Disney, this could create a lot of problems. All right,
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maybe I'll try to come to us compromise and okay. It'll be that you can't teach radical sexual
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education to, uh, students, uh, first grade through second grade, but kindergarten and third grade,
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they're still fine. How about that? We'll come, we'll split the baby. We'll split the baby down.
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Half will be boy, half will be girl. We're going to split the baby on transgenderism. Maybe that'll do
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it. No, that would rather than saving Ron DeSantis, his political career in Florida and America,
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it would have completely destroyed it. The only argument for Ron DeSantis, for governor and for
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president is this guy's tough. This guy's moral, got moral clarity. This guy's not going to back
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down. The second he gives an inch on something like this, he's dead in the water. There's no
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reason to elect him to anything. DeSantis knows that sometimes the best defense is a good offense.
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So he goes on the offense instead of, Oh, I'm going to meet with the Disney CEO and I'm going
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to shake his hand and glad, glad hand him and smile at him. No, I'm going to go out there and
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I'm going to say, screw you. You're, you're trying to abuse children. You, you hate parents.
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I'm never going to back down defending parents. You're a monster. I hate your guts and you can go
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pound sand, buddy. That's, that's not only a good offense. It's not, it's a good defense too,
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because now you've got the Disney CEO back footed. You've got him on his heels.
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What's he going to do? He's probably going to back off also because the parents are,
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are on DeSantis' side. Also because Disney's supposed to be a family company and the families
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are on the side of Ron DeSantis. It's a very small minority of families or Disney customers
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for the theme parks and the movies and the merchandise. It's a very small percentage
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that support radical transgender theory in first grade. So what DeSantis has done is not tried to
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just massage everything and make everyone happy. He's just put himself in a very strong position.
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Maybe Joe Biden could learn a lesson from that. Maybe the United States could start doing that
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on the world stage rather than, for instance, in Ukraine, giving Vladimir Putin direct access
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to the European oil market and hoping that that keeps him happy enough not to invade Ukraine rather
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than literally inviting him to invade just the Eastern part of Ukraine and then hoping he'll stop
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there. Weakness is going to breed more violence and chaos. But if you have a little strength,
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if you, if you've got credible threats, that is going to breed a lot more peace. And you're seeing
00:24:17.760
this by the way, you're seeing the Florida model, the Florida and Virginia model on the social issues,
00:24:22.940
on transgenderism, on critical race theory, on, on the social issues is, is now being adopted
00:24:28.940
in a lot of other States. Georgia is now adopting the don't say gay bill, like a parental rights and
00:24:36.160
education bill. Idaho is going even further than that. So the absolutely wonderful, great news coming out
00:24:45.120
of Georgia is that Georgia's SB 613 bill says, quote, no private or non-public school or program
00:24:53.100
to which this chapter applies shall promote, compel, or encourage classroom discussion of
00:24:57.080
sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not appropriate
00:25:01.000
for the age and developmental stage of the students. Almost point for point, the, the same as the Florida
00:25:07.300
law, good stuff. Again, just for conservatives and Republicans broadly across the country,
00:25:14.640
it's going to be a lot easier to get these kinds of totally common sense laws put into place.
00:25:21.140
If a lot of States start doing it, if it's only Florida, then the Democrats and the libs and the
00:25:26.120
radical transgenderists are going to focus all of their efforts on just killing it in Florida.
00:25:30.160
But if it pops up in Florida and Georgia and Idaho and all over the country, they're not going
00:25:36.600
to be able to aim all their, their guns, their ideological and financial guns at Florida. They're
00:25:41.040
going to be spread out. You're gonna have a lot better chance of these laws remaining in place
00:25:44.580
all over the country. Idaho's done even better. Idaho just voted to make transing the kids a felony.
00:25:52.960
Idaho's house just passed HB 675. Really important to look into this. It was passed by vote of 55
00:26:00.120
to 13, so not even close. And it would make providing, they, they, on the liberal side,
00:26:05.720
they call it gender affirming care to trans teens, a felony with a life sentence. What does it really
00:26:12.340
mean? It means pumping confused little kids full of hormones and potentially mutilating their genitals.
00:26:18.900
It, it defines that as child abuse and a felony with a potential life sentence. Absolutely.
00:26:25.120
Well, I'll, frankly, a life sentence is a little lenient, if you ask me, for mutilating a poor
00:26:31.280
little confused child's body. Yeah, I think that's absolutely right. This is more of what we need to
00:26:36.540
see. Rather, the way that conservatives have run the cultural game for years is always on the
00:26:43.100
defensive. We're always negotiating against ourselves. Instead of saying, hey, I want abortion
00:26:47.540
banned. It's killing babies and it should be illegal. We say, well, what if, could we maybe just,
00:26:52.660
could we ban it at 20, 26 weeks? Would that be fine? Or, and maybe 25 weeks and could we, no. And
00:26:58.800
then, and then that's where the Overton window sits. That's where the negotiation begins. Trump
00:27:02.920
kind of showed us this with, with the art of the deal, right? You always ask for as much as you
00:27:08.140
possibly can, as much as you can possibly credibly ask for. Maybe you go even a little further than
00:27:12.720
that. And then wherever the negotiation ends up is going to be much more favorable toward you.
00:27:18.420
Great law being passed in Idaho. I want to see more of that. Oh, in every conservative state in
00:27:23.920
the country, I want to see that law being passed. The other side of the ideology is just really
00:27:28.800
weird and creepy. Okay. And we, we just got a video of this, of Chaston. Chaston is Pete Buttigieg's
00:27:36.800
partner. And he is a pretty outspoken, obviously, on some of these social issues. If you're associated
00:27:46.720
with Mr. Buttigieg, who tries to make every single thing he's doing, every time he passes some mundane
00:27:52.800
regulation at the transportation department, he tries to make it seems like, like he's the most
00:27:56.540
radical social reformer in America and set himself up for president. Well, Buttigieg's partner, Chaston,
00:28:02.320
a clip just came out of him running a gay camp with bizarre cultish overtones.
00:28:12.240
All right. I pledge my heart. I pledge my heart. To the rainbow. To the rainbow. Of the not so
00:28:18.980
typical gay camp. Of the not so typical gay camp. One camp. One camp. Full of pride. Full of pride.
00:28:25.840
Indivisible. Indivisible. With affirmation and equal rights for all. With affirmation and equal
00:28:32.100
rights for all. Watch your heads. And then he waves the rainbow flag. This stunt that he pulled
00:28:41.980
is extremely unpatriotic and extremely sacrilegious. And I still find this guy more likable than Pete
00:28:50.960
Buttigieg. Somehow. Because Pete is just that unlikable. But what he did here is really,
00:28:58.060
it's really unpatriotic. You're, you're asking people to pledge their, not just their allegiance,
00:29:04.000
pledge their hearts to the gay flag. He rewrites the pledge of allegiance to the American flag and
00:29:10.860
takes out the American flag and takes out God and replaces under God with full of pride. Not only
00:29:19.280
the, a deadly sin, but the deadliest of the seven deadly sins. It's commonly been called the queen
00:29:25.480
of vice. Now some people say it is the vice of queens. I don't know. I don't know. I've just
00:29:30.400
heard that. It's quite an inversion. But he, he says you, you must pledge your heart full of pride
00:29:38.540
to the rainbow flag. This is a lot more than just a boy who likes another boy. Okay. This is a lot more
00:29:45.340
than just a sexual desire. And even, this is a lot more than even pursuing a sexual desire that might
00:29:51.560
be unusual. This is a radical ideology. This is, I've said it for a long time, the LGBT element of
00:30:02.320
opinion, it goes on and on. They're selling this to you as though it were just a way to be nice to
00:30:08.100
people with sort of unusual sexual desires. Sex is almost secondary to the thing. It is a full on
00:30:15.560
political, cultural, religious worldview that replaces America with your own
00:30:23.060
base desires and replaces God with pride. I mean, it celebrates pride. That's a weird thing.
00:30:29.180
Why don't, why isn't it, you know, celebrating love? Why isn't it celebrating individuality? Why,
00:30:36.740
why pride? Why there's, there's always these sort of strange religious overtones to it.
00:30:42.980
Do you know who unearthed the clip? It wasn't some homophobic right-wing anti-gay. It was the
00:30:51.340
log cabin Republicans. It was the gay Republican group unearthed that clip because there were a lot
00:30:57.300
of guys, a lot of guys who are attracted to other guys who looked at that and said, whoa, man,
00:31:01.800
whatever that is, I'm out. Count me out of that, please. I don't want to be a part of that.
00:31:07.740
The cultural battle that we are seeing right now, especially in these laws in the schools in Florida,
00:31:13.280
the, the rule in Georgia and Idaho, this in Virginia for that matter, with the governor's
00:31:19.200
race with Glenn Youngkin, the two sides are, hey, maybe don't trans the kids and
00:31:26.260
chasing and Pete Buttigieg versus chasing it. They're right. Those are the two polls. It's,
00:31:31.760
hey, let's not tell my five-year-olds that maybe he's actually a little girl versus pledge your
00:31:38.460
heart full of pride to the rainbow flag. Huzzah, huzzah. What do you think is going to win? What do
00:31:43.740
you think is more popular? What do you think is a more normal, stable, attractive view of the
00:31:50.860
individual and of society? I think it's probably going to be the don't trans the kids side of
00:31:57.120
things. This is a full ideology, but before we get to the mailbag, there's a, the Democrats had to rush
00:32:03.920
through their last minute legislation the last few days because House Democrats had to make it to a
00:32:10.320
retreat to be entertained by a drag queen. Not a joke. This is being hosted by DCCC chair,
00:32:18.160
Sean Maloney. The DCCC is the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee. This retreat they all ran off
00:32:24.460
to included a musical performance by a drag queen named Lady Bunny. Lady Bunny is actually a pretty
00:32:29.440
funny fella because he's not just totally on board with the Democrats. He's apparently made lots of
00:32:34.420
jokes about Hillary Clinton, how terrible she is. And so I kind of, as far as drag queens go, I kind of
00:32:39.100
like Lady Bunny, but still House members should not be going on retreats to watch entertainment by drag
00:32:44.760
queens. And then it got me thinking, what's the difference between a drag queen and a, and a
00:32:49.480
transgender person? On the surface, they're exactly the same, right? Men who identify as, or pretend to
00:32:55.920
be women and dress up like women and present themselves as women to the world. Except one group
00:33:01.940
knows that they're men and the other group is pretending that they're not men. The difference is
00:33:05.680
self-awareness. The difference is one knows that they are engaging in a kind of virtual reality when
00:33:11.520
they put on the lipstick and the stilettos. The other one believes that virtual reality is real.
00:33:16.500
They think that virtual reality, that what we're being sold are, and our lives are increasingly
00:33:21.160
virtual, right? We increasingly, we're on, we're spending our lives scrolling. Increasingly, we're
00:33:25.660
spending our lives on our computers. We're not increasing, we can work from home. We don't need
00:33:29.460
to be connected so much to the physical world. Well, that, that is the shift. It's that self-awareness.
00:33:36.400
And we're losing a lot of that self-awareness. We talk about disinformation, whether it's coming
00:33:39.940
from the Pentagon, whether it's coming from the Russians, whether it's coming from the Chinese,
00:33:42.640
whether it's coming from Jussie Smollett, the more detached you are from the physical world,
00:33:47.160
the easier it is to fall prey to that kind of disinformation. Now, we have got to come back
00:33:53.380
with my absolute favorite time of the week that would be coming up in the mailbag. Head on over
00:33:58.140
to dailywire.com slash subscribe right now. We'll be right back with a lot more.
00:34:09.940
Welcome back to the show. My favorite time of the week, when I get to hear from you in
00:34:16.340
the mailbag. First question up from Mike. Hello, fellow name bearer. Mike writes, I am looking for
00:34:21.860
some advice on making decisions. Not what should I have for dinner decisions, but work or life
00:34:26.680
decisions. I get into analysis paralysis and have an extremely difficult and emotional time deciding.
00:34:32.260
I've heard all the platitudes, just flip a coin, just figure it out, make a pro and con list.
00:34:36.900
But none of those things give me any clarity when it comes to making a choice. Do you have any advice
00:34:42.060
to help decision making to make it a little less painful? I'm with you. I am exactly the same way.
00:34:50.100
When I have to decide, I'll give you a great example. I had, I was repainting my dining room.
00:34:57.960
I, this process dragged on for months. Sweet little Elise and I were in disagreement. Do we want green?
00:35:05.240
No. Or do we want red as all dining rooms should be painted? So we're going back and forth. We're
00:35:11.600
getting other people's opinions. I ask friends. I ask people whose aesthetic opinions I trust. We go
00:35:18.200
on and on. Finally, we decide red. Then we've got to decide what red. I get a thousand swatches.
00:35:25.140
Not really a thousand. I probably got, I don't know, 20 or 30 swatches. None of the swatches worked. I said,
00:35:30.220
no, we've got to get this swatch. We've got to get this swatch. Right at the very end,
00:35:32.400
I was about to pick one and I heard about a different kind of paint from a different company.
00:35:35.300
I went, we ordered another one. We finally got that one. I said, this I think is the perfect one.
00:35:39.980
Let's go with it. And it was the right color. This took months and months and months. With some
00:35:44.560
decisions, you can do that because it doesn't really matter what color your walls are painted
00:35:49.080
and when you paint them. Some decisions are more urgent. Hey, what job am I going to take?
00:35:55.620
Hey, am I going to get married? Hey, what, even sort of what car am I going to buy? Your car is
00:36:01.040
breaking down. You got to pick a car. The way that I would help you, look, for some decisions,
00:36:09.240
take your time. Who cares? You know, it doesn't really matter. But for the ones where you really
00:36:12.120
need to decide quickly, just know that as long as you're not doing something immoral, right,
00:36:19.960
as long as you're not doing something unjust and they're both sort of fine, you just have to pick
00:36:25.820
because sometimes indecision is worse than the wrong decision. There's this poem by Robert Frost.
00:36:32.740
Do you know that it's probably the most famous poem by Robert Frost? And it's completely misunderstood.
00:36:36.440
The poem is The Road Not Taken. People think it's called The Road Less Traveled, but it's not. It's
00:36:40.540
called The Road Not Taken. The poem goes, two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not
00:36:44.960
travel both and be one traveler. Long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in
00:36:48.660
the undergrowth. Then took the other as just as fair and having perhaps the better claim because it was
00:36:52.620
grassy and wanted where. Though as for that, the passing there had worn them really about the same.
00:36:56.640
And each that morning equally lay and leaves no step had trodden black. I kept the first for another day,
00:37:02.000
but knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted that I should ever come back. I shall be telling this
00:37:07.720
with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence. Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less
00:37:13.200
traveled by. And that has made all the difference. People think this is a poem about individuality and how
00:37:20.780
you have to go do your own thing and the thing that most people aren't doing. It's not. There is
00:37:25.860
no road less traveled by in the poem. They're, they equally lay and leaves no step had trodden black.
00:37:31.400
They're about equally traveled. He just picked one. And then he later on was longing and thinking about
00:37:37.600
the decision that he didn't make. And then he creates this narrative for himself about how it was
00:37:42.100
so important to make the decision that he did make. But it was, it was just chance. It was just
00:37:48.020
fortune. It was just life. He just made a decision. And so I hate to come back to that first bit of
00:37:53.180
advice there. But when it comes to urgent matters where you actually need to move on and you can't
00:37:57.720
wait to paint your room for six months, just make the decision. And somewhere ages and ages hence,
00:38:04.000
you can say with a sigh, I took the road less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
00:38:08.580
From Tegan. Hey, Michael, me and my wife were discussing the recent phenomenon of women not
00:38:13.500
taking the last name of their husband after marriage. They keep their maiden name. The reason
00:38:17.440
for this is because they want to break tradition, fight against the patriarchy and keep their own
00:38:21.280
identity. My question is, how do I explain why it's important for women to take the last name of the
00:38:25.680
man after they get married with your famous wisdom? You're the reason I subscribe to the Daily Wire.
00:38:29.640
Thanks for all the work you do. Here's how you explain it to them. Ask these women where they got
00:38:36.440
their last name. Or they got their last name from their fathers. The patriarchy wins again.
00:38:45.580
Now, maybe you're talking to a really young woman, a Zoomer, who's lived in political correctness and
00:38:52.240
is several generations in now to this kind of woke, politically correct world. Maybe she got her last
00:38:58.460
name from her mother. I don't know. It's rare, but it happens. Ask that young woman where her mother
00:39:04.760
got her last name from her mother's father because the patriarchy wins in the end. The decision is not
00:39:13.440
between becoming subservient to the man and girl power when you're deciding whether to keep your maiden
00:39:22.520
name or to take on your husband's name. Either way, you've got a man's name. The question is,
00:39:28.460
am I going to identify primarily in this new family that I am creating through my marriage or am I going
00:39:36.520
to identify primarily by my old family before the marriage? And what does that say about the marriage
00:39:42.800
and the family that I am in now? That's the question. A lot of people get tricked into this by
00:39:49.080
feminism. Feminism is very wily, but it's really pretty simple. You're not choosing between me,
00:39:57.220
the girl power or my husband. You're just deciding, okay, who do I identify with more,
00:40:03.900
my husband or my daddy? From Jen. Hey, Michael, or shall I say Noel Stradamus. Thank you.
00:40:10.000
I love that you've become the love guru of the Daily Wire. My question is about being friends
00:40:14.720
with someone who shut down a romantic relationship, but kind of offered friendship instead. Is it ever
00:40:21.020
worth it to be friends with someone that you have a crush on, though it is unrequited,
00:40:25.400
especially if you weren't friends before but enjoyed hanging out with them? Thanks and praying
00:40:31.060
I won't have to settle like you slightly hint that women of a certain age should do.
00:40:36.820
Maybe. I'm not saying it's impossible and maybe you and he really hit it off in some platonic way
00:40:44.220
and you'll enjoy playing bridge together and never long for anything more. But if you are a single
00:40:48.960
woman, you're interested in this guy romantically, you're saying that you're, I think you're implying
00:40:54.840
in your question that you want to settle down and get married and start a family, why would you waste
00:41:00.400
your time on this guy who's not interested in you? Well, the only reason would be because you think
00:41:06.420
that you can persuade him to be interested in you romantically in the long run. And maybe you can
00:41:11.160
and maybe you can't, but that's, that's kind of, that's quite the gamble. You don't have infinite
00:41:16.740
time. You're probably working or studying. You, you, you know, you've got other commitments in your
00:41:23.780
life. You've got other people to see. And so in those precious few hours that you have to yourself
00:41:27.920
where you can look toward finding a boyfriend or fiance or husband or settling down, why would you waste
00:41:37.020
it on some dude who says, no, I just, I pretty much just want to play pinochle with you forever
00:41:41.020
until we go our separate ways. I wouldn't do that. I probably would not do that. I'd go,
00:41:46.780
I'd go find a hunk if I were you. From Andrew, Michael, always enjoy your show. Thanks for doing
00:41:51.640
what you do. Another dating and relationship question. Why not? How many dates should I give
00:41:56.380
someone before deciding there isn't really any chemistry and moving on? I tend to go on at least two
00:42:01.280
or three, but most of the time, the more I get to know a girl, the less interesting and attractive
00:42:05.340
she seems to me. Never a good sign. Having said that, I also recently turned 36, so I also can't
00:42:11.220
discount that I'm the problem. Too picky, unrealistic expectations, etc. My general thinking was that
00:42:16.440
attraction should be something that grows naturally. But do you think that I'm not giving women enough
00:42:20.960
of a shot for a relationship to develop? Signed, the crotchety millennial. Probably you are the problem
00:42:26.860
and potentially the places you're looking to find women are a problem too. You say that you become
00:42:36.020
consistently less attracted to these women. That's probably because what is attracting you in them
00:42:42.440
is not really in them. It's not really love. It's a sort of infatuation. It's just a hologram that you
00:42:49.500
are superimposing over these women, which is your own fantasy of what a woman should be.
00:42:54.560
And I don't know why that is. Dating lots of women can do that. Looking at porn can do that.
00:43:02.860
Creates unrealistic expectations. Reading certain books can do that too. But then when you get to
00:43:08.800
know the actual woman, you like them less and less and less. So I'm not here just to scold you.
00:43:14.480
You should figure out what it is that is not attractive about these women to you
00:43:17.820
and then stop seeking out women who have those qualities. There are plenty of women that I know
00:43:23.540
who physically are very attractive where I think I'd probably, you know, take a walk to the rickety
00:43:29.040
stool store if we ever ended up getting married because I just, I couldn't, I just couldn't bear
00:43:33.200
it. You know, we're just not compatible. Okay. We don't really go together very well.
00:43:36.840
So don't pursue those women. Are you meeting those women in bars? Well, then stop meeting women in
00:43:43.880
bars. Maybe try to find a woman through a mutual friend, through a family member, through a friend
00:43:50.080
of a colleague. Maybe you meet this woman in church. Maybe you, I don't know, whatever. But
00:43:54.760
clearly you are doing something wrong. If you've made it this far and you still find these women
00:44:01.520
unattractive, then something not just, not about you necessarily, but about your strategy is wrong.
00:44:08.040
Okay. And, and also I would, when you find a woman to go on a date, maybe you're going on too many
00:44:12.500
dates for that matter. Women are not just cheap disposable things. In our swiping right culture,
00:44:17.500
it's very easy to think of them that way. Maybe you're getting a little too frisky too soon with
00:44:23.060
some of these women. And so it's more, it's easier to see them merely as vessels for your pleasure
00:44:27.180
rather than actual dignified creatures made in the image of God with whom you could share your life
00:44:32.300
and become one flesh. So if that is the case, perhaps wait to go on a date until you find a
00:44:39.320
woman who actually has a quality about her that you find attractive and is not merely a convenient way
00:44:48.420
to spend a Wednesday or Thursday night. From Jake. Hello, one who sees the future and turns it into an
00:44:54.320
ad segue in my friend group. There have been more and more debates regarding porn, specifically only
00:44:59.540
fans. There was an article saying that one in five women in New York are considering doing it to pay
00:45:04.860
rent. Oh my goodness. Uh, they all said the typical it's their body. So it's their choice or as long as
00:45:10.980
she is not being forced to, it's fine. Just don't watch it. If you don't like porn, when we are debating
00:45:15.380
it, how can I as a conservative destroy these fools with facts and references to Cardinal Manning?
00:45:20.240
Thanks very much. Oh, well, you just say it's wrong. The whole my body, my choice thing is just
00:45:26.140
fake. You don't have the right to do whatever you want to your body. Everyone understood this in
00:45:30.780
America until about five minutes ago. This is why we have laws against drugs, not even just laws
00:45:35.820
against driving while on drugs or being in public while on drugs. We also have laws against those
00:45:40.880
things, but we also have laws just against possessing certain drugs because you do not have total
00:45:46.560
autonomy to do whatever you want with your own body. Suicide is against the law in a lot of
00:45:51.720
places. Actually, in some places it's legal now, but traditionally it's against the law. Why? Because
00:45:55.880
you don't have the right to do whatever you want with your own body because you don't have the right
00:45:59.120
to do things that are wrong. And it's wrong to sell yourself like you're just a meat puppet.
00:46:06.620
And it's wrong to consume those sorts of things and to trade in those sorts of things. And we still
00:46:13.680
have laws against all of that in this country and they're enforced sometimes and other times
00:46:19.460
they're not enforced, but it's just, it's not good for these women. Well, they need it to make money.
00:46:24.560
No, they don't. No, they don't. I know. Look, I'm a New Yorker. New York's a very expensive place.
00:46:28.540
I know it takes a lot of hustle to make it there. You don't need to sell your body. You don't need to
00:46:32.740
become a prostitute to make it there. And if you do move to Brooklyn. Okay. If you do Hoboken's really
00:46:38.580
nice. It's not worth it. It's really not worth it. It's going to really mess up your life.
00:46:43.040
It's going to mess up your relationships. It's going to mess up your sense of yourself.
00:46:47.200
Do not, do not. It's not worth it so that you can have that really nice 500 square foot studio
00:46:54.860
apartment in Hell's Kitchen. Okay. I promise you, probably you're not even going to afford that.
00:47:00.940
You're probably going to afford a small one bedroom apartment with like four roommates. Okay.
00:47:06.040
That glitz, that dream ain't worth it. How do you, how do you convince people that it's wrong
00:47:10.860
to treat their bodies like they're just purely flesh? Because you're not purely flesh. Because
00:47:15.300
we're talking. Because we have reason. Because we can communicate. Because we have longings and loves
00:47:20.520
and desires and joys. Because we're more than our bodies, we're also our souls. And we need to make
00:47:24.760
sense of that too. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you on Monday.
00:47:27.980
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